South Viet Nam: A Beginning

"This certainly announces the
beginning of the end," exulted South Viet Nam's Premier Nguyen
Cao Ky. "A great victory for the people against traitors. A
victory for what is right and just against what is cruel. A victory of
the entire free world against those who would enslave mankind."

Ky's happy hyperbole was perhaps a bit overheated, but he did have rea
son for enthusiasm as South Viet Nam's election results flowed in last
week.

So did U.S. Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge, who greeted him fulsomely as
the results became clear. Fully 80.8%...